The 54th Massachusetts Regiment was the first Black unit organized in the North during the Civil War. Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, member of a prominent white abolitionist family, this unit displayed heroism unsurpassed by any fighting group, North or South, most notably during the assault of Forth Wagner in Charleston, S.C. An imposing bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the 54th Regiment Memorial, stands opposite the State House at Beacon and Park monument are: Lewis Clark, William H. Morris, Henry Albert, Charles Van Allen, John W. Winslow, Lewis C. Green, Samuel Sufshay, James Buchanan, William Wilson, Thomas R. Ampey, Cyrus Krunkleton, George Vanderpool, William Brady, Charles M. Holloway, William Thomas, Henry F. Burghardt, Abraham Brown, John Tanner, Andrew Clark, Thomas Bowman, Charles S. Gamrell, Edward Williams, Henry Craig, Lewis J. Locard, Robert McJohnson, Cornelius Watson, Josephus Curry, Charles E. Nelson, Franklin Willis, Cornelius Price, William Edgerly, Elisha Burkett, John Miller, Richard M. Foster, Albert Evans, Augustus Lewis, Anthony Scheneck, William S. Everson, Samuel Ford, Henry King, Willis J. Smith, Henry Dennis, William Henry Harrison II, John H. Johnson, Edward Darks, Edward Hines, James P. Johnson, Benjamin Hogan, and George E. Jackson. The 54th Regiment was recently portrayed in the film 'Glory.'